Today’s Headlines

8:54 AM PDT on July 22, 2019

Passenger train service breaks ground in Redlands (ABC7)
Santa Barbara adds pedestrian safety improvements (Edhat)
Electric bike-share returns to San Francisco, after a dispute (Tech Crunch)
Rancho Mirage to study better bike lanes, er, golf cart lanes (Desert Sun)
Richmond-San Rafael bridge bike path won't be completed until it can connect at both ends (Marin Independent Journal)
Lawsuit: LAPD ticketed speeding drivers illegally because speed limits "had expired" (LA Times)
California to replace old school buses with all-electric buses (The 4th Revolution)
"Digital twin" technology for managing traffic is spooky (CityLab)
Heat is much worse when it doesn't cool down at night (Vox)
The vanlord who rents out broken-down vehicles to people without housing (The RealDeal)
Major U.S. cities are leaking methane at twice the rate previously believed (Science Magazine)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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